Emerging Tech

Watch New 3-D Printing Technique Create Intricate Objects From a Pool of Goo

Most existing consumer-grade 3D printers print in layers that fuse together to make the final object. Carbon3D takes a different approach.

Emerging Tech

FCC Chairman: 'No Secret Instructions' From Obama on Net Neutrality

Wheeler will testify Tuesday at the first of three high-profile congressional hearings on the agency's net-neutrality order.

Digital Government

Coast Guard's Fingerprint System Used to Nab Terrorist Suspects is Flawed, OIG Says

Personnel on Coast Guard ships use handheld devices to collect intercepted persons' fingerprints and images of their faces, as part of the Biometrics at Sea System.

Emerging Tech

GPO Joins GitHub

The agency is trying to connect with a broader community of developers who might be doing their own analyses of federal documents.

Emerging Tech

Why ‘Cloud is Here to Stay’

Cloud computing may be the most-hyped technology since the Internet itself, but its reputation as a disruptor is perhaps one of the few technologies that would have Public Enemy changing their lyrics.

Emerging Tech

DISA Drops $1.6B Contract after Controversy

The cancellation comes as several companies protested the award in February.

Digital Government

Take a First Look at the Next Generation Ebola-Protection Suit

The two biggest issues with past versions were the tendency for workers to overheat and the high risk of contamination when removing the suit.

Digital Government

8 Questions on What US' New Era of Net Neutrality Really Means

Will this sea change in U.S. Internet policy go down in history as a win, an inconsequential whimper or a waste of our nation’s global innovation leadership?

Digital Government

Ted Cruz Tells NASA to Stop Worrying About Climate Change and Focus on Space

The Texas Republican and likely presidential candidate told NASA’s chief Thursday to focus on “what inspires little boys and little girls across this country.”

Cybersecurity

Treasury Begins Automating Cyber Tip-Sharing with Banks

The technology upgrade follows heavy assaults on Wall Street networks over the past few years.

Emerging Tech

Robot vs. Robot

Can a computer forge a painting well enough it fools the algorithms designed to detect fakes?

Digital Government

Video: Open Data and Improving Quality of Life

The seventh installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Cybersecurity

Pentagon on Path to Launch Hacker-Proof Boeing Drone by 2018

Defense industry programmers are rewriting software on the helicopter drone to prevent outsiders from digitally infiltrating the aerial vehicle.

Emerging Tech

Inspector Gadget, but for Nuclear Waste

Four years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, robots are cleaning up the contaminated power plant.

Emerging Tech

Stop Hating on Graham’s Email Admission

Let’s bring back the Spice Girls, frosted hair tips and wide-legged jeans: It feels like 1995.

Emerging Tech

What's Stopping Startups From Contracting with the Government?

One D.C.-based company claims it can give startups access to the federal government in six months.